All OC Harry & David Stores to Close

I received a newsletter last week from Harry & David that our local store at the Irvine Marketplace was closing. But Hang Nguyen over at The Orange County Register has confirmed that all three of the Harry & David stores in Orange County has closed.

The Medford, Oregon-based specialty-foods retailer, which I like for its Moose Munch popcorn-and-chocolate candy bars, now has six California locations left. "The location closest to Orange County is at Manhattan Village in Manhattan Beach," Nguyen writes.

Edwin Goei was born on the island of Java, grew up in La Habra, studied in Irvine, and eats everywhere. Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, he went by the alias "elmomonster" on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.